The Origins and Development of Financial Markets and Institutions : From the Seventeenth Century to the Present / Edited by Jeremy Atack, Larry Neal.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Atack, Jeremy.

Neal, Larry, 1941-

Series:

Cambridge books online.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Financial institutions.

Capital market.

Banks and banking.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (496 pages) : digital, PDF file(s)

Place of Publication:

Cambridge : Cambridge University Press, 2009.

System Details:

Mode of access: World Wide Web.

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PDF

Contents:

1 Financial innovations and crises: The view backwards from Northern Rock / Jeremy Atack 1

2 An economic explanation of the early Bank of Amsterdam, debasement, bills of exchange and the emergence of the first central bank / Stephen Quinn, William Roberds 32

3 With a view to hold: The emergence of institutional investors on the Amsterdam securities market during the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries / Oscar Gelderblom, Joost Jonker 71

4 Was John Law's System a bubble? The Mississippi Bubble revisited / Francois R. Velde 99

5 Sir George Caswall vs. the Duke of Portland: Financial contracts and litigation in the wake of the South Sea Bubble / Gary S. Shea 121

6 The bell jar: Commercial interest rates between two revolutions, 1688-1789 / Marc Flandreau, Christophe Galimard, Clemens Jobst, Pilar Nogues-Marco 161

7 Comparing the UK and US financial systems, 1790-1830 / Richard Sylla 209

8 Natural experiments in financial reform in the nineteenth century: The Davis and Gallman analysis / Larry Neal 241

9 Regulatory changes and the development of the US banking market, 1870-1914: A study of profit rates and risk in national banks / Richard J. Sullivan 262

10 Anticipating the stock market crash of 1929: The view from the floor of the stock exchange / Eugene N. White 294

11 The development of "non-traditional" open market operations: Lessons from FDR's silver purchase program / Richard C.K. Burdekin, Marc D. Weidenmier 319

12 The interwar shocks to US-Cuban trade relations: A view through sugar company stock price data / Alan Dye, Richard Sicotte 345

13 Central bank reaction functions during the inter-war gold standard: A view from the periphery / Kirsten Wandschneider 388

14 When do stock market booms occur? The macroeconomic and policy environments of twentieth century booms / Michael D. Bordo, David C. Wheelock 416

15 Lessons from history for the twenty-first century / Larry Neal 450.

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ISBN:

9780511757419

9780521895170

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